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Having friends is great. Paying for friendships? Not so great. Between lunches, dinners, drinks, and other get-togethers, maintaining a social life can get surprisingly expensive. And research suggests the rising cost of friendship is changing how often people see their friends a ...  عرض المزيد

Everyone knows that practice makes perfect. Or does it? Practicing is certainly important when you're trying to master something new, but research suggests there's another ingredient that can make practice far more effective. And the surprising part is that it involves not practi ...  عرض المزيد

Why is my friend late? How does nuclear fission work? What occurs when I sneeze? We all need to understand why certain things happen. Some researchers think the drive to explain the world is a basic human impulse, similar to thirst or hunger. This week on Hidden Brain, we begi ...

Would you kill one person to save the lives of five others? Why do you find yourself on the horns of a dilemma when someone offers you a chocolate cake? How can you believe different things at once? Find out what's running under the hood in this first episode of a three-parter ab ...  عرض المزيد

Why do briefly glimpsed people appear to be more attractive? Why did portrait photographers put Vaseline on their lenses, and what does that have to do with Instagram filters? Why are thirsty people more likely to perceive something as transparent? And what does any of that have ...  عرض المزيد